On Wednesday, January 23, Republican State Representative Bill Zedler filed House Bill 650 - a birther bill. The legislation would require any candidate for President or Vice-President to submit his or her birth certificate to the Texas Secretary of State in order to be allowed on the ballot. The application to be on the ballot, including the birth certificate, would be matters of public record. The law would take effect immediately if it received 2/3 the vote of the Texas Legislature. On April 27, 2011, President Obama released his long form birth certificate to the media and the public, putting the issue to rest for all but the fringe element of the Republican and Tea Party. That any lawmaker would still be obsessing about this issue is embarrassing. Rep. Zedler - a fringe, Tea Party conservative - is not new to crazy ideas. He once tried to remove official complaints made against a doctor who injected jet fuel into his patients. (The doctor also just happened to have given money to Rep. Zedler's campaign.) Rep. Zedler has also filed legislation to bar discrimination against professors who teach intelligent design, and another to outlaw Sharia law in Texas. It's almost like Glenn Beck got elected to the State House. Sign our petition today and let Rep. Bill Zedler know Texas has far more important problems than this.

I am a healthy, fit, 64-year-old woman. Yet I am wheezing and coughing from our filthy air, and an x-ray now shows that I have irreversible lung damage, despite the fact that I have never smoked and exercise regularly. Is this the future we want for our children and ourselves? Must we move away to protect our lungs?

ABOUT HOW THIS ORGINATIONS ARE IGNORING NEW SCIENCE AND STICKING BY 12 year old science regarding chronic and late stage Lyme And tickbourne illnesses. I am one of thousands if not more of these patients who are being affected both physicallY and financially.

All fire arms should be required to have trigger locks. After all these senseless shootings, it should be the easiest law to enact. Automobiles all require seat belts, and drivers and passengers are required by law to wear them. Need I say more?

End Selective Service Registration. The Draft is not service. It's servitude.

Mark Zuckerberg has decided to throw a fundraiser for Governor Chris Christie's reelection campaign. Zuckerberg made waves when he donated $100 million to Newark public schools in 2010. But just this year Chris Christie is trying to take $50 million away from Newark public schools -- half of Zuckerberg's donation. And that's on top of the $3.6 billion he's cut from New Jersey schools -- urban and suburban -- since he took office. Tell Mark Zuckerberg that he can't pretend to be friends with New Jersey students while buddying up to Chris Christie. He needs to cancel his fundraiser today.

A Republican lawmaker in New Mexico introduced a bill on Wednesday that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial. House Bill 206, introduced by state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R), would charge a rape victim who ended her pregnancy with a third-degree felony for "tampering with evidence."

Both parties have used gerrymandering to increase their representation. It destroys any pretense of democracy. There already exists a usable system for creating districts by population which is non-political and fair to both parties. It is the Post Office's zip code system. Some districts might need some re-arranging, but most are usable now. Please do something for the people that will last for generations.

A.L.E.C has exerted influence on local lawmakers without knowledge and acceptance by the public .A.L.E.C presents "model laws" with a right wing agenda that often translate directly into legislation. Officials attending these conferences without public knowledge and accountability violate our democracy.

I used to be able to go to my math classroom before class and ask my teacher for help on problems I didn't understand. Now, I will be forced to sit in first/second period, wasting time, while the teacher works with those few who need help. The new TAP Intervention schedule is a complete failure, and the only solution is to revert to the original configuration.

"Incarceration due to drug addiction and the distribution of such ,has affected my father, mother, aunts, uncles, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends and most of all the community from which i was raised. I have watched 95% of my generation perish in this 30yr "War on Drugs" Rehabilitation, Education and Employment should be our top priority, and this war on drugs should be stopped. Will you help me help you are someone you know and love?

We are in need of your assistance. A grave injustice is being served to one of our fellow classmates, Kim Brown. Kim suffered the loss of her baby after having to emergently deliver her at just 21weeks gestation. The baby unfortunately did not make it and the nursing school is attempting to force Kim to retake peds/ob clinical because she missed one week (although there are a built in 2 make up days) and told her not to come to the next week (thus now missing 4 clinical days not by choice). She has been told that she can still continue on for medsurg clinicals and hopefully make up peds/ob this summer if someone in the accelerated program drops out, which so far no one has. We are asking for your signature on the below petition for the school of nursing to allow Kim to make up the clinical days on the built in make up days and also during her medsurg clinical rotation ( she's in pep and will only have to go one day so the other day she can fit in peds/ob). This is very time sensitive so please add your name below if you would like to help fight this injustice and support Kim. Thank you.